Map Apps

What a wild wet weekend we just had! It started raining Friday evening and didn’t let up until Sunday afternoon. We had just enough time to enjoy the hottub for a bit before it started raining again. It was a relatively warm rain (40’s) and as the clouds lifted off the mountains I was shocked to still see snow up there.

Anyway, it was a great weekend to hunker down and work on Google map code. I needed a simple and fast map app to display places for my charging station location program and other upcoming projects. I started with a simple HTML5 structure without jQuery or jQuery Mobile and without any external JavaScript or CSS files. It’s just a stand-alone app that uses pure Google Map Services and I’m very pleased to say it scales great on my smartphone, tablet and my giant monitor.

I then wrote another version that plots directions between two places, just like Google Maps does. (we both use the same Google Services :-) Now I need to write one more app that accepts user addresses, to bind them together.

Here’s the Map app and here’s the Directions app.

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